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Directed and produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, Crazy, Not Insane follows Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. The film explores her lifelong attempts to look beyond the grisly details of homicides and into the hearts and minds of the killers themselves.
The documentary film highlights Dr. Lewis’ research, videotaped death row interviews, and the formative experiences and neurological dysfunction of infamous murderers such as Arthur Shawcross and Ted Bundy, to challenge the notion that murderers are made and not born.
Narrated by actress Laura Dern, Crazy, Not Insane also explores the death penalty itself, questioning whether or not it is actually a deterrent to violence and asking an important question: Once dangerous killers are locked away and the public is protected, why is society so determined to execute these human beings?
Original Release
11/18/2020
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Dorothy Otnow Lewis | Self - Clinical Psychiatrist |
| Catherine Yeager | Self - Clinical Psychologist |
| Richard Burr | Self - Defense Attorney |
| Park Dietz | Self - Forensic Psychiatrist |
| Tom Brokaw | Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw |
| Bill Clinton | Self - Governor of Arkansas |
| Thomas Coccuzzi | Self - Defense Attorney for Arthur Shawcross |
| Laura Dern | Narrator (voice) / Self - Literary Voice of Dorothy Lewis |
| Walt Disney | Self - Animator / Entrepreneur |
| William Elledge | Self - Convicted Murderer |
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Dorothy Otnow Lewis | Self - Clinical Psychiatrist |
| Catherine Yeager | Self - Clinical Psychologist |
| Richard Burr | Self - Defense Attorney |
| Park Dietz | Self - Forensic Psychiatrist |
| Tom Brokaw | Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw |
| Bill Clinton | Self - Governor of Arkansas |
| Thomas Coccuzzi | Self - Defense Attorney for Arthur Shawcross |
| Laura Dern | Narrator (voice) / Self - Literary Voice of Dorothy Lewis |
| Walt Disney | Self - Animator / Entrepreneur |
| William Elledge | Self - Convicted Murderer |
| Henry Ford | Self - Industrialist & Antisemite |
| Joseph Paul Franklin | Self - Convicted Murderer & Neo-Nazi Terrorist |
| Alex Gibney | Self - Filmmaker |
| Charles Gibson | Self - ABC News Anchor |
| Joseph Goebbels | Self - Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 - 1945 |
| Hermann Göring | Self - President of the Reichstag, 1932 - 1945 |
| Adolf Hitler | Self - Führer and Chancellor of Germany |
| Joseph P. Kennedy | Self - Kennedy Family Patriarch & Antisemite |
| Nollie Martin | Self - Convicted Murderer |
| Marie Moore | Self - Convicted Murderer |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Nancy Abraham | Executive Producer |
| Maiken Baird | Executive Producer |
| Lisa Heller | Executive Producer |
| Stacey Offman | Executive Producer |
| Richard Perello | Executive Producer |
| Alex Gibney | Producer |
| Erin Edeiken | Producer |
| Annamarie Fernandez | Producer |
| Ophelia Harutyunyan | Producer |
| Joey Marra | Producer |
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